Eddie Burke, known as "Rioter Burke," was stricken with an affection of the eyes which prevented his working even if he could have found a place.
Your honor, I think if this witness did not withdraw from the scene of the disturbance he too was a rioter and an accomplice, and as such his evidence would have to be corroborated?
Make your own computation from your own data; I insist only that a rioter shot in time saves nine.
To shoot a rioter or lyncher is a high kind of mercy.
Two men were in advance of the escaping prisoner; but by an apparent misstep while he ran alongside the second, the rioter was overturned, and but one remained; the others being so far in the rear as not to count in the chase.
The leader of the regulators felt exceedingly proud that the rioter should ask him to participate in the plot, and promised, without the least show of hesitation, to do anything which might be required of him.
The rioter is Isabel Balfour's one son--that might have been your first-born, Sholto Douglas!
You see, the fist of the rioter has driven it home to me that I am a Jew.
A handsome young rioter in a crimson blouse staggered over the balustrade of a balcony, hugging a Jewish vase, and was killed on the spot.
Now and then a drunken rioter would crouch before one of these puddles, dip up a handful of the muddy stuff with his hands and gulp it thirstily, with an inebriate smile of apology to the bystanders.
The rioter looked round with surprise, muttered something and joined the looters.
Cried out the other rioter anon, "Thou partest not so lightly, by St. John!
And whan this riotour, with sorry grace, rioter Hath fillid with wyn his grete botels thre, To his felaws ayein repaireth he.
He ran down the street; endeavored to make his escape; was nearly overtaken by his pursuer; in self-defence he turned and shot the rioterwith a revolver.
Their orders were to capture all arms; and when a rioter was seen with a carbine or a gun of any kind, one or more of the police would rush out of the ranks and seize it, then fight their way back.
I feel as if a rioter could knock me down with a feather.
The police charged at once in a compact body, Carpenter knocking down the foremost rioter with a blow that cracked his skull, and in a few minutes the mob scattered and fled, leaving Broadway strewn with their wounded and dying.
No, sir; could not get to the round-house, found that I would get shot very likely by our own men as I was in citizens clothes, and looked about as much like a rioter as any of the rest of them.
Another rioter was aiming one of the long-barreled native air-rifles, holding the ten-inch globe of the air-chamber in both lower hands.
O'Leary, jumping forward after von Schlichten, stuck his dagger into the neck of a rioter and left it there, then caught the girl around the waist with his free arm.
Then the rioter swore with some of his big oaths that he at least was not afraid of this Death, and that he would seek him out wherever he dwelt.
But the second rioter prevented him, and swore he should not depart so lightly.
Then the sound of returning horse's feet, and Rioter rushed up the side drive to the stables riderless.
The boy's white, set face, as he grasped the reins; and Rioter was off like lightning.
They had left Queen's Square empty, they said, and not a rioter was to be seen there, and the troops had returned to their quarters.
